A police incident report on Santa Rosa Junior College information technology employee Jordan Mead’s March 19 arrest shows that Mead called the police himself before going to SRJC Vice President Kate Jolley’s home.
Before taking an Uber to Jolley’s home around 6:25 p.m. March 19, Mead called the Rohnert Park Police Department’s emergency line and notified dispatch he was going to demand that she speak with him by “ringing her doorbell until she came to the door.”
Mead asked Officer Dack Thompson to facilitate his “unwanted attempt” to contact Jolley. “I explained to the suspect to not go to the victim’s home. Converse to my advice, the suspect stated that he was going to the victim’s home and force her to speak with him,” Thompson wrote in his incident report.
Officer Thompson arrived before Mead at Jolley’s Rohnert Park home, spoke with her and viewed Mead’s threats to her via email and text.
In the days before the arrest, Jolley was discouraged from seeking a restraining order, Thompson wrote. It is not clear who discouraged her.
According to the incident report, the harassment Jolley faced began around five months before Mead’s arrest when college officials notified Mead of his potential termination and placed him on administrative leave. “The suspect began to harass staff with emails and text messages to their phones. The text messages were vulgar and disparaging comments regarding the staff,” the report states.
“He expressed that his intent was to arrive uninvited and unannounced at each of their homes and berate them until they spoke to him,” Thompson wrote.
In January, Jolley set up a pre-termination, or Skelly, hearing for Mead. That’s when Mead began specifically targeting Jolley, sending progressively troubling emails and texts daily telling her to “watch her back,” according to the report.
“The victim told me that she believed that the suspect was going to keep stalking her and eventually cause her physical harm or death,” Thompson wrote. While Thompson was talking with Jolley, Mead arrived at her home. “I arrested the suspect.”
In a text exchange with The Oak Leaf, Mead said he had acquired a copy of the incident report, “The account written in it is 100% fabricated. Kate Jolley’s account is false. Dack Thompson’s call with me is largely accurate but slanted in her favor. When I get the calls and body cams, it will be over for her.”
Mead faces one felony stalking charge and a misdemeanor count of harassing or annoying via electronic communication or phone calls related to the March 19 arrest. He pled not guilty at his arraignment March 28. Superior Court Judge René Auguste Chouteau remanded Mead to custody and set bail at $1 million, which Mead posted that night. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 23 in Sonoma County Superior Court.
